Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lined seaside tarmac. Patient research shows that the aircraft have varied registration-French, German, Belgian, Zambian, Biafran and Gabonese. Each afternoon, three or four planes taxi to the nearby military airfield for loading, then take off for Biafra at 6 p.m. sharp. They return around midnight, after the 900-mile round trip. Just as predictable as the flights is the black Citroen, owned by the French security police, that follows...
...mile "Farewell Tour" of the U.S., Lady Bird Johnson strolled through the cathedral-like majesty of the redwood country of northern California. Pausing at the base of a 657-year-old giant, she placed a plaque designating the 27,000-acre Redwood National Park, a project that has pitted the Government and conservationists against private lumber concerns that have been felling great swatches of the dwindling redwood stands. "This is the crowning moment of a crusade that has lasted two generations," she said. "It would be a tragedy if tomorrow's tourists find a repetition of yesterday...
...bedecked with welcoming banners. The Shah was irate because King Feisal was playing host to the Sheik of Bahrain Island, the British dependency just off the coast of Saudi Arabia that has long been claimed by Iran. Even worse, Feisal was said to have promised to build a twelve-mile bridge to Bahrain and vowed to defend the is land "under any circumstances...
Detroit's answer to the problem seems to be to reduce the warranty periods. The basic two-year, 24,000-mile warranty that applied to 1968 models has been cut to one year and 12,000 miles for the 1969s. That slash saves the industry, by FTC estimate, some $40 per car, or more than $300 million...
Delays Endured. The merger would combine the 8,282-mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,747-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,538-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 922-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The resulting 26,509-mile system, including a few subsidiaries, would serve 17 states and two Canadian provinces, from Chicago to Vancouver, from Galveston to Winnipeg. The merged northern lines, to be known as the Burlington Northern Inc., would rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Penn Central and the Southern Pacific), with 1967 revenues of $875 million...